day 366: Divisions

I have always been a lover of a good play on words. A dear friend from college once told me that 90% of my humor was just playing with the meaning of words. I think he was right. What he didn't say that I really am not that funny. He should have. But, I digress. There is a word that I do find interesting in the work world. That is the word "Division". When companies start to get big they begin to set up "Divisions". They will then create a position to lead that Division. That may be the Head, General Manager or even the President of the Division. The word division has many meanings. The one that companies would desire would be; "a major autonomous or semi-independent but subordinate administrative unit of an industrial enterprise, government bureau, transportation system, or university: the sales division of our company; the Division of Humanities." But the root of the word division is to divide. The first meaning in the dictionary for the word "division" is; "the act or process of dividing; state of being divided." I hope you see where I am going. We chunk up our work and our companies into different states of divisions. We divide and conquer, but we divide. We don't stay unified and with each division, big or small, we have to work harder to find unity, alignment, cohesiveness and agreement. We then end up creating jobs and functions to work on keeping the company and people on the same page. We counsel and move people out of the company who can't work together and who are too divisive. As believers we can't afford to get caught up in these divisions. If we are to work to our purpose and be the role models and examples, we are to be people who model the cohesiveness of God's love. There is a peace and a calm to this that allows for us to live and work in the promise of no separation from God. We read in Romans 8:38 that nothing can separate or divide us from Him; "And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow, not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love." As we go about today and this week, look for the divisions around us and let's see if we can't model bringing the divisions together and be the menders of separations.

Reference: Romans 8:38 (New Living Testament)